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3QuineIn W. Newton-Smith (ed.), A companion to the philosophy of science, Blackwell. 2000.Willard Van Orman Quine was born on 25 June 1908 in Akron, Ohio. For many years he was a professor of philosophy at Harvard University and is now emeritus. To some extent his views are connected with the American pragmatist tradition, but a more important influence comes from the empiricist tradition and, in particular, from the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle (see logical positivism). Quine has always remained faithful to the spirit of empiricism, but he has also criticized and revised …Read more
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9Quine and the A PrioriIn Ernie Lepore & Gilbert Harman (eds.), A Companion to W. V. O. Quine, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.John P. Burgess: Quine's continuing struggles with epistemological and ontological problems about mathematics and logic are traced from his first rebellion against logicism, through his flirtation and subsequent disillusionment with nominalism, to his final endorsement of naturalism, with an eye throughout to tensions among different aspects of his overall philosophy.
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Reasons in ethicsIn Gilbert Ryle (ed.), Contemporary aspects of philosophy, Oriel Press. pp. 177. 1977.
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17Interpersonal Utility ComparisonsGrazer Philosophische Studien 16 (1): 283-312. 1982.Utilitarianism, as well as many other political and moral doctrines, presupposes that the problem of interpersonal utility comparisons can be solved. Otto Neurath gave a comparatively early (1912) and explicit statement of this problem, and he suggested that it cannot be solved. This may still be the dominant view. It is argued that recent attempts to solve the problem (by e.g. Schick, Rescher, Harsanyi, Brandt, Jeffrey, Arrow, and Hare) are unsatisfactory, but that the oldest suggestion - i.e. …Read more
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865Underdetermination of Physical TheoryIn Roger F. Gibson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Quine, Cambridge University Press. pp. 91--114. 2006.
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103On the Coherence of Act-UtilitarianismAnalysis 33 (3). 1973.The article is a reply to professor castaneda's criticism of a recursive formulation of act-utilitarianism which i have suggested in an earlier paper (analysis 29.2) and which was intended to satisfy the deontic principle that 'ought' is distributable over conjunctions. i argue that castaneda's arguments against my formulation are inconclusive
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53Gary Kemp Quine versus Davidson: Truth, Reference, and Meaning. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013. 191 pp. isbn 978‐0‐19‐969562‐1 (review)Theoria 80 (3): 283-287. 2014.
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481Notes on the value of scienceIn Dag Prawitz, Brian Skyrms & Dag Westerståhl (eds.), Logic, methodology, and philosophy of science IX: proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Uppsala, Sweden, August 7-14, 1991, Elsevier. 1994.
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6073Putnam on the Fact-Value DichotomyCroatian Journal of Philosophy 2 (2): 117-129. 2002.In Reason, Truth and History and certain related writings, Hilary Putnam attacked the fact-value distinction. This paper criticizes his arguments and defends the distinction. Putnam claims that factual statements presuppose values, that “the empirical world depends upon our criteria of rational acceptability,” and that “we must have criteria of rational acceptability to even have an empirical world.” The present paper argues that these claims are mistaken.
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122A Defense of Quinean NaturalismIn Chase B. Wrenn (ed.), Naturalism, Reference, and Ontology: Essays in Honor of Roger F. Gibson, Peter Lang Publishing Group. 2008.This paper argues that a naturalized epistemology of the kind presented by W.V. Quine preserves everything worthwhile in traditional epistemology. Arguments against Quinean naturalism by such writers as Laurence BonJour, Jaegwon Kim, Richard Rorty, Barry Stroud, and Donald Davidson are criticized. Contrary to what is sometimes assumed, Quinean naturalism does not reject a priori justification. The important point is that epistemology is contained in science. There is no ‘first philosophy’, and, …Read more
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7065Death and Eternal RecurrenceIn Jens Johansson Fred Feldman Ben Bradley (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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1457Quine's relativismTheoria 72 (4): 286-298. 2006.Keywords: W.V.Quine claimed that relativism is paradoxical and unacceptable; nevertheless, his own views concerning truth and the underdetermination of theories by data amount to an interesting and plausible form of relativism.
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38Hintikka on "Prima Facie" ObligationsTheoria 40 (3): 163-165. 1974.In this note it is argued that professor jaakko hintikka's explication of the notion of a 'prima facie obligation' within the framework of deontic logic must be regarded as unsatisfactory. since our world is not morally (or 'deontically') perfect, hintikka's proposal seems to have the absurd consequence that everything is a prima facie obligation
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767Quine and the A PrioriIn Ernie Lepore & Gilbert Harman (eds.), A Companion to W. V. O. Quine, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.
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